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Gong to Zendesk integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Gong and Zendesk in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.

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Why teams connect Gong and Zendesk

Sync what happens in Zendesk with the customer records in Gong, in real time and in both directions.

The CRM is supposed to be the record of every customer relationship, but customer-relevant information also accumulates in the other tools a team runs. Whatever Zendesk holds or produces that touches a customer, whether conversations, payments, replies, enriched data, or notes, the CRM only benefits if it arrives without someone copying it over.

Stacksync connects Tickets Comments, Users, Organizations, Attachments in Zendesk to Users, Interaction Stats (Activity), Trackers & Scorecards, CRM Objects in Gong with bi-directional, real-time sync. Activity and record changes in Zendesk update the matching contact or account in Gong, and CRM data flows the other way wherever Zendesk can store and use it.

Common use cases

  • 01 Mirror high-priority or escalated tickets into engineering trackers through the synced database.
  • 02 Consolidate several Zendesk instances into one reporting database after a merger or brand split.
  • 03 Submit data-privacy erase-data-for-email requests to Gong to fulfill GDPR/CCPA deletion across recorded conversations.
  • 04 Pull call Transcripts by callId into a warehouse or vector store to power search, RAG, and deal-review summaries over what was said on calls.

Common sync patterns

Where Zendesk handles support or shared inboxes

Tickets and conversations attach to the right contact and account in Gong, so sales sees open issues before the next call.

Where Zendesk supplies contact or company data

Enriched fields land directly on records in Gong, and refreshes keep them from going stale.

Where Zendesk can store CRM context: fields kept current

Owner, lifecycle stage, or account details from Gong sync into Zendesk, so people working there have the context without switching tools.

What you can sync between Gong and Zendesk

Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.

Gong objects Zendesk objects How this pairing syncs
Users Gong users and team members with roles, titles, email, and settings, read via GET /v2/users to map call owners and participants to CRM and warehouse identities. Read-only. Users End users and agents; matched to CRM contacts to keep requester data consistent. Same entity on both sides — records pair one-to-one and field-level changes reconcile in both directions.
CRM Objects Accounts, opportunities, stages, and users uploaded into Gong through the CRM integration API so CRM context appears alongside conversations. Write (upload) path. Tickets The central work object; synced to databases for SLA and volume reporting or mirrored into engineering tools. CRM Objects is specific to Gong and Tickets to Zendesk — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Library Call-library folders and folder content (curated calls and snippets) read via GET /v2/library/folders and /v2/library/folder-content. Read-only. Tickets Comments Synced with incremental and full sync per the Stacksync docs. Library is specific to Gong and Tickets Comments to Zendesk — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Data Privacy (Erasure) GDPR/CCPA deletion handled by POST /v2/data-privacy/erase-data-for-email, with data-for-email lookups on the read side; a write path used for compliance deletions. Organizations Company groupings for users; typically kept aligned with CRM accounts. Data Privacy (Erasure) is specific to Gong and Organizations to Zendesk — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Calls Retrieved via POST /v2/calls/extensive with participants, topics, trackers, scorecards, and media URLs, filtered by fromDateTime/toDateTime; external recordings are also imported via POST /v2/calls with media uploaded via PUT /v2/calls/{id}/media. Read and write. Attachments Synced with incremental and full sync per the Stacksync docs. Calls is specific to Gong and Attachments to Zendesk — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Transcripts Speaker-attributed, timestamped sentences retrieved via POST /v2/calls/transcript for one or more callIds; available only after asynchronous processing completes. Read-only. Ticket Forms Synced with incremental and full sync per the Stacksync docs. Transcripts is specific to Gong and Ticket Forms to Zendesk — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Gong and Zendesk

Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.

Gong Zendesk Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Gong for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling POST /v2/calls/extensive on fromDateTime/toDateTime.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Zendesk through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Zendesk Gong Sub-second propagation

DetectionZendesk notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Incremental export endpoints with cursor-based pagination, plus webhooks fired by triggers.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Gong through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Gong: 3 API calls per second and 10,000 calls per day per company by default; exceeding returns HTTP 429 with a Retry-After header, and limits can be raised by contacting Gong.
  • Zendesk: Request limits vary by plan; incremental export endpoints have their own allowances.
What ships with Gong ⇄ Zendesk

Connect Gong and Zendesk for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Gong–Zendesk connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Gong or Zendesk instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Gong or Zendesk data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.

At scale

Event queues

Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single Gong or Zendesk record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Gong ⇄ Zendesk sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Gong and Zendesk.

How the Gong and Zendesk connectors work

Gong

Integration surface
REST API on api.gong.io/v2 - retrieval endpoints (calls, transcript, users, stats, settings, library, logs) plus write endpoints for importing calls, uploading CRM data, and data-privacy erasure
Authentication
Basic authorization header combining an Access Key and Access Key Secret (created by a Gong technical admin, base64-encoded as key:secret); OAuth 2.0 Bearer tokens are supported for marketplace apps
Change detection
Polling POST /v2/calls/extensive on fromDateTime/toDateTime; the public API exposes no outbound webhooks or CDC, though a Gong admin can configure a product-side automation Rule that POSTs matching calls to a URL. Transcripts and analysis appear only after asynchronous processing.
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
3 API calls per second and 10,000 calls per day per company by default; exceeding returns HTTP 429 with a Retry-After header, and limits can be raised by contacting Gong.
Gong setup guide

Zendesk

Integration surface
REST API
Authentication
OAuth app authorization: enter your Zendesk subdomain (from {sub_domain_name}.zendesk.com) in Stacksync Connections and click "Authorize App"
Change detection
Incremental export endpoints with cursor-based pagination, plus webhooks fired by triggers
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Request limits vary by plan; incremental export endpoints have their own allowances.
Zendesk setup guide
How it works

How to connect Gong to Zendesk — three steps, no code

Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate Gong and Zendesk with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    Gong connected
    Zendesk connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Gong and Zendesk objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · Gong ⇄ Zendesk
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    Gong Zendesk
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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SSO & SCIM

Let your users access Stacksync from your centralized user management systems. Works with Okta, Azure, Google SSO and more.

Alerts

Immediately get alerted about record syncing issues over email, Slack, PagerDuty and WhatsApp. Resolve issues from a centralized dashboard with retry and revert options.

Secure connection options

Securely connects to your systems with:

OAuth 2 SSH Tunnelling SSL certificates IP Whitelisting VPN gateway VPC peering and more

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